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{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Sydney Robert Fremantle|nick=Sydney R. Fremantle|appt=7 April, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 338}}|end=1 January, 1910<ref>Fremantle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 473.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Sydney Robert Fremantle|nick=Sydney R. Fremantle|appt=7 April, 1908{{NLOct08|p. 338}}|end=1 January, 1910<ref>Fremantle Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 473.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Henry Darby Tothill|nick=Hugh H. D. Tothill|appt=1 January, 1910<ref>Tothill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 296.</ref>}}
 
{{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Hugh Henry Darby Tothill|nick=Hugh H. D. Tothill|appt=1 January, 1910<ref>Tothill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 296.</ref>}}

Revision as of 14:09, 19 February 2015

H.M.S. Lancaster (1902)
Pendant Number: 71 (1914)
78 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Armstrong[2]
Ordered: 1900-01 Programme[3]
Laid down: 4 Mar, 1901[4]
Launched: 22 Mar, 1902[5]
Commissioned: 5 Apr, 1904[6]
Sold: 3 Mar, 1920[7]
Fate: to Ward[8]

H.M.S. Lancaster was one of ten armoured cruisers of the Monmouth Class completed between 1903 and 1904.

Service

On 3 February, 1911, she collided with the armoured cruiser Aboukir while operating with the Sixth Cruiser Squadron. It was determined that Rear-Admiral Douglas Austin Gamble was at fault.[9]

Recommissioned at Sheerness on 5 November, 1912 for service with the Second Fleet.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 70.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  8. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 42.
  9. ↑ Gamble Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/38. f. 507.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 338.
  11. ↑ The National Archives. ADM 196/39. p. 1384. Perhaps!
  12. ↑ Tottenham Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/20. f. 623.
  13. ↑ Heath Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 200.
  14. ↑ Heath Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 200.
  15. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 338.
  16. ↑ Fremantle Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 473.
  17. ↑ Tothill Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 296.
  18. ↑ The Navy List. (April, 1914). p. 336.
  19. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395t.
  20. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 394y.
  21. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 827.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


Monmouth Class Armoured Cruiser
Bedford Berwick Cornwall Cumberland Donegal
Essex Kent Lancaster Monmouth Suffolk
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